John Bruce Wallace
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John Bruce Wallace is a composer, improvisational guitarist, painter, and philosopher. He has a philosophy degree from the University of Southern Maine
University of Southern Maine
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He is a free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

 solo performer. He has recorded and released seven albums of extended sound statements. Tours have included festivals in Russia and Lithuania, where he was awarded fourth place at the Vilnius Jazz Festival
Vilnius Jazz Festival
The Vilnius Jazz Festival is the oldest annual jazz festival held in Vilnius, Lithuania. It provides a broad perspective on contemporary trends in jazz from all over the world. Since its founding in 1987, Vilnius Jazz has earned a reputation of a radical avant-garde festival oriented towards...

. His music was invited for performance consideration at the American Pavilion during the 1991 São Paulo Art Biennial
São Paulo Art Biennial
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, in São Paulo
São Paulo
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, Brazil
Brazil
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. "He invented a new technique of playing while continuously changing the pitch of his electric guitar" (Svetlana Korel'skaya, ARKHANGEL'SK, Arkhangel'sk, Russia). "[A] composer working to create a new voice for the electric guitar...creating a new approach to the instrument" (Tim Brady, Opus Novus, Bradyworks, Codes d'Acces, Montreal, Quebec, Canada).

He has exhibited figurative oil paintings in several shows in New York City and Washington, DC, as-well-as, shows in Chicago, Minneapolis, Missouri, Maryland, Maine.

He has published a monograph in Philosophy on Solipsism and Consciousness.

External links



The JAZZ Discography - by Tom Lord http://www.lordisco.com/musicians/W2.html
Vilnius Jazz Festival http://www.vilniusjazz.lt/history/91.htm
Praesentation zeitgenoessischer Spielarten improvisierter Musik ... http://www.vilniusjazz.lt/press/9201jp.htm
Статьи « ЖУРНАЛ НЕЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКОЙ МУЗЫКИ "РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ-ONLINE"» http://rezultat.atknet.ru/articles/?26
Link to Philosophy Monograph on Consciousness and Solipsism titled: Genesis: Involvement: Generation
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